date:Sep 05, 2012
es the possibility that supplementation might also have benefits in patients receiving antimicrobial therapy for pneumonia, sepsis and other lung infections,added Martineau.
Study details
Martineau and his colleagues randomised 95 TB patients receiving standard antibiotic treatment into two groups: for the first eight weeks of their treatment, 44 received additional high dose vitamin D, while 51 received a placebo.
Levels of inflammatory markers in blood samples were taken from the patients,